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Prompt   /prɑmpt/   Listen
Prompt

adjective
(compar. prompter; superl. promptest)
1.
According to schedule or without delay; on time.
2.
Ready and willing or quick to act.
3.
Performed with little or no delay.  Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway.  "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"
verb
(past & past part. prompted; pres. part. prompting)
1.
Give an incentive for action.  Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel.
2.
Serve as the inciting cause of.  Synonyms: inspire, instigate.
3.
Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned.  Synonyms: cue, remind.
noun
1.
A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken).  Synonym: prompting.
2.
(computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command.  Synonym: command prompt.



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"Prompt" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Peters. 'There stands a man inured to physical danger. A few hours ago he was placed where prompt resolution was demanded to decide the fate of one of the loveliest creatures upon whom the light of yonder crater-fire ever shone—perhaps upon whom the sun ever shone; he had scarcely sixty seconds of time in which to determine whether she should ...
— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake
... said, "I took it from a Mr. Cort, who had a little mill at Fontley in Hampshire: I have thus acquainted you with my method, by which I am now making more than ten thousand tons of bar-iron per annum." Samuel Homfray was equally prompt in adopting the new process. He not only obtained from Cort plans of the puddling-furnaces and patterns of the rolls, but borrowed Cort's workmen to instruct his own in the necessary operations; and he soon found the method so superior to that invented by Onions that ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
... father's creed, but his mother's character, precepts, and example. "She was a person," he says, "of excellent practical sense, of a quick and sensitive moral judgment, and had no patience with any form of deceit or duplicity. Her prompt condemnation of injustice, even in those instances in which it is tolerated by the world, made a strong impression upon me in early life; and if, in the discussion of public questions, I have in my riper age endeavored ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... disgraceful in the highest degree to themselves. This conduct should receive not only the discountenance, but the decided reprehension of the respectable part of the community. Every citizen is interested, and is moreover bound to manifest his interest by his acts, in bringing every offender to prompt and condign punishment. The stake which every one has in the good order of the community, is great—it behoves, then, every one to exert himself ...
— The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday - Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts • Henry M. Brooks
... sagely once for all, for the surveyor's mind was of the type prompt in reaching conclusions, and he was difficult to divert from ...
— The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)


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